"The Girl With The Horizontal Walk" is a single story chapbook which was published on 1st June 2019 by Salò Press. The date would have been Marilyn Monroe's 93rd birthday. The story was subsequently reprinted in Best British Short Stories 2020 edited by Nicholas Royle.
Back cover blurb:
The
heart weighs 300 grams.
As Marilyn Monroe’s body lies in the morgue, fragments of an unfinished
movie coalesce in a swansong of remnants, gossip, memories, doppelgangers
and subterfuge.
A wry post-mortem of celebrity, identity, objectification, artifice
and reality. The more times I read it, the more I see. The more I think
about it, the more Marilyn Monroe converges. - Priya Sharma, author
of All The Fabulous Beasts
The Girl With The Horizontal Walk is Marilyn Monroe reimagined and
reimagined again, vividly portrayed even as she’s deconstructed.
Andrew Hook doesn’t so much tell a story here as pull you into one,
taking what you think you know and giving it back to you transformed.
I loved it. - Ray Cluley, author of Probably Monsters
This
story is one of a series of ‘celebrity death’ stories from
the anthology “Candescent Blooms” which is currently seeking
a publisher. Buy it here.
More details to follow near publication.
The Girl With The Horizontal Walk
